I'm running Mandrake 7.2 Complete (After a massive failure, following me screwing around with the kernel, I had to borrow this from a friend. Soon enough I will have Debian, SuSE or RedHat installed), with a 2.2.17-21mdk Kernel.

My linux box is composed of a 300.6 mHZ processor, 64 mB RAM, a Voodoo 3 graphics card, a Logitech IntelliMouse, one junky Micr----t keyboard, a very nasty 15 inch monitor, a Cirrus Generic 33.6kbp/s modem, Creative Sound speakers, and one very ugly box. Oh yeah, a single 48X CD-Rom.

Interesting stuff, right?
But how much more fittingly a topic can you have for a first post in a Linux forum?

300.6MHz... that .6 makes all the difference eh?

Most people start with a question or an answer to someone elses question, but its still very valid as a first post, the first one I've seen like this...

Myself I'm running a dual-boot (Windows & Slackware 7.1 on 2.4.5) AMD K6-2/500, 256MB, 4+6GB HDDs (Fujitsu, IDE), Voodoo 3 3000, Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI controller, UltraPlex 40max SCSI CDROM, PlexWriter 8/2/20 CD-RW (not BURN Proof ), IDE Zip 100 (very early non-ATAPI), nice 17" monitor, RealTek 3129 based 10/100MB NIC, SB Live 5.1 hooked upto my stereo, keyboard and mouse aint worth a proper mention. Connected via a 10/100 switch to my 'server' (Slackware 7.1 on 2.2.19) which is an IDT WinChip-2/233 (Evergreen Specra-233 upgrade effort [far better than I expected]) based box with 64MB, 6+13GB HDDs (Maxstor/Fujitsu, IDE), Diamond Stealth64 (S3 trio), no monitor, no mouse, no keyb, RealTek 8139 based 10/100MB NIC, RealTek 8129 based NE2000 compatile NIC connected to a Motorola SB3100 cable modem (blueyonder, capped at 512Kb down and 128Kb down ), Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller, external DDS1 DAT drive, 48x IDE CD-ROM, Liberty dumb-terminal currently haging off one of the serial ports.

Follow the link from my homepage if you are interested in further details, although it needs an update.

cheers.

Jamie...

suse 7.2,
abit kt7 mobo,t-bird 700mhz,256 meg pc133 sdram, 40gb westerndigital hd,50xcdrom,adaptec 2930 scsi controling a h.p.scanjet 5p,voodoo 3 3000, canon bjc-4100,acer 77e monitor.

1. Tyan KT133A w/ 800mhz Duron, 512 pc133 MB RAM, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, 16 GB Maxtor HD, Philips Sound Card, Linksys 100TNX Ethernet, Iomega ZipCD, Pioneer 40X DVD with a LS120 Floppy Drive.
Running Dual Boot Windows 98 and Redhat 6.2.

2. Tyan KT133A w/ 800mhz Duron, 256 pc133 MB RAM, ATI XPERT98 PCI, 6 GB Maxtor HD, Soundblaster 32 AWE, Linksys 100TNX Ethernet, Acer 40X CD and LS120 Floppy Drive.
Running Slackware 7.1.

That is what I am running at the time being..... they change all the time.

( I love these questions )

I've been a SuSE fan since 6.0. I have been poking at linux in general since '96 with slackware (nice...), and later purchased both Caldera and SuSE 6.0. SuSE was the first distro that I could confidnetly use as my daily desktop platform. My only beef with SuSE is the fact that it's hard to find on the store shelves. I bought RH last year and IMHO it's $190 I would like back.

Right now I'm running an old Asus P2L97 with a P-II 266 and three fuji 10GB ATAs on two Promise ATA controllers in a RAID5 config. It's real sweet for a cheap rig and it'll be easy to upgrade to a good BX or i815 and PIII combo. Oh yeah and an ATI all-in-wonder pro to watch tv with.

I'm dual booting Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 and Windows ME. I have a 600 MHz, Intel Celeron machine.

p 100mhz, 24mb of ram, 1.50gb hard drive, sn2000 ethernet card, 56k jaton modem with pctel chipset, 4x cd rom, 19" packard bell monitor. Running on Red Hat 6.2.

My other box is..
550mhz amd athlon, 20gb maxtor hard drive, 96 mb of ram, lucent 56k modem, 44x cd rom, 8mb Nvidia VANTA video card, 8x4x32x hp cd-rw drive, 17" monitor. Running win 98 / and soon to be mandrake. www.rr.com cable connection coming soon i hope. Everything networked with a linksys 4 port cable/dsl router.

Mine is pretty sad too in a way . . . it came with Win98 already loaded, with a WinModem and an i810 video chipset, so I have to run X in VGA16 and had to get an external modem to get online. But it works pretty well for me.

My main server runs Redhat 7.1 on Asus BX mainborad dual PIII 500 Processors with 2 3COM 100Mbps ethernet cards Also Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller with 2 9.1 Seagate cheatas 10000 RPM hard drives in Raid1 setup ALL in cool 1024MB of 133 MHZ 7.5 ns ECC Memory. I am currently running 3 web sites using Apache and mail service for them using Sendmail....Never crashed once since I built it 8 months ago. I am looking forward to do my own distribution from scratch as compile the most recent Kernel and just download and install needed components. Linux is my favorit OS.

Is that all

Jamie...

Jamie,

Want more !

Wait until stable new technology provide.........

Did I mention this main server is just a node in my 5 servers cluster .....hahahaha.... Serious.

Got Linux Mandrake 8.0 on a dual 466 celeron on a bp6 with 256mb pc100 ram two via fast ethernet cards, 20 gig ata/66 5400 hard drive and a s3 4mb video card. Which doesn't matter because I run it headless and handless? (No monitor, no keyboard, no mouse) Always just ssh2 into it. It is a firewall (hopefully), web server, smtp server, caching dns server. Might be a pop3 server by the end of the day so I can get email off of it using Outlook 2000.
Still trying to figure out how to get it so Windows workstations can get mail from it in a more "Exchange Server" kind of way. Plus I am very interested in cluster servers and any information on software raid for linux. Also, any information on xwindows from secure shell connection? I know it's possible, but I would like to use Gnome, is THAT possible?

Thanks,
Jeff

daylyn,
How about one thing at a time ....

Can't slow down and do one thing at a time! If I concentrated on one thing at a time, I might complete that task, then the next and then I would be done. What would I do then?

I'm new to linux, but have actually been a firewall administrator since May 2000. We use BSDI3.1 and Gauntlet with NT domains behind the firewall. The thing is that I have learned and become very proficient at doing a very specific thing with very specific software on a very specific platform. I wanted to diversify and try new things.